You are a talented literate here my friend, But there are THOUSANDS (literally) who can trust a person who poses to be trust-worthy for sometime before he delivers the package, and hence can easily be cheated

Well. You fail to see the point. Suppose I'm the author of a software package. Supposing I'm a malicious person, and that I put some loopholes into the software., and release it as Free Software. Then, the source code is going to be seen by scores of people who'll figure within a shortwhile that I'm a `fake'. That is the advantage here.

(atleast in India). Some of the greatest laws in India have cute loop holes, so how tough is it to forge software signatures (esp. if its only the ASCII text). Im not against anything per se.

Try forging a digital signature.. ;-) If you are successful then you should probably apply for a PhD at MIT (Massachusettes Institute of Technology) Its not ascii text. It is a encrypted hash of the original message. Which cannot be created without the public key of the author.

Sorry for typo, ya, its "GNU Not Unix"... but what does the first word "GNU" stands for in "GNU Not Unix" (obviously its not a recursion)? And

It is a recursive acronym.

yes, I've visited www.gnu.org scores of times, but couldnt locate it there too.....

The first paragraph on http://www.gnu.org/ says about GNU. Tell me you did not bother to read it.

Cheers, Joe